Teaching your toddler how to write!!

Have you ever had to teach some one how to write their letters?! I haven't either, but now I am doing it! OMG. so my son has moved up a class in daycare and they are writing or learning how to read. I'm so excited and nervous as well. So Monday 1/9/2017 he came home with home work talking about writing letters and reading. I was like he is to young for this. He wont understand, but he fouled me. We sat down and I pulled out the dry erase board he would trace the letters. of course they aren't perfect, but he was doing it. So I was like wow maybe it isn't to early especially if they are learning it at school.
So the school sends homework home every week over the letters they are working on in class and they are learning how to write their name as well. My son is the youngest in the class. He turns 4 in September 2018, where as the students in the class turn 4 in March/April. So they are supposed to do the work sheets and then turn the homework in every Thursday to get credit for doing it. I guess if the teacher can see them practicing at home, they can see what they need help with in class. So I'm excited because we are still dealing with speech and talking and I feel that writing is just moving him way to fast because he is not even having a regular conversation. He is trying though and his talking has improved a lot. I don't know guess this mommy is just worried. I am encouraging him though despite my feelings towards it.
So this is what we do at home.

1. We write on a dry erase alphabet board. Each letter every night.
2. We have a leap frog alphabet https://www.bing.com/images/shop/search?view=detailv2&q=vtech%20alphabet%20write%20and%20erase&id=6A928B7707FCC8990A45A834C20B4B04708920E5&ccid=eu9kW2m+&simid=608023682285503012&selectedIndex=1&form=IMGSHP&mode=serp
3. And we are reading books every night. I was reading him the same book every night because it was his favorite. Now I read the books I want and make him lay down while I am reading them. Even though he isn't engaged with me reading he is listening to me. Which will help him as well.

Today I actually went to Dollar Tree they have little activity books were they child can do for each letter. I bought 2 of them. they were only 2 dollars. And I went to target looking for more books to help with writing but I found one on first words. Which would help him with talking because it is first words and they are putting the words into sentences. So hopefully that will help him. I am looking for a big pencil though. Like I swear all this stuff was able to be found when I was young. Now it seems that everything is electronically and you cant find nothing for kids to do hands on. Its crazy.

I will be researching more things to do to help our little toddlers right. If you want to get affordable things try the dollar store and target. All the little books I bought today were only a dollar. Or you can print out work sheets and have them laminated and get your child to writing and you can use them over and over. Especially if you several little people.

Hopefully this will help!! 

Impression Bridal and Venturas Bridal

Ima Let yall know that today I am trying on dresses. Yes I tried on dresses last week with my best friend, but this time my mother and Godmother will be there, so it might be a little more real to me. IDK! I am nervous because I love this Berta dress which about 10,000 bucks. I am sure I wont be getting that dress or I might just depends if my mother likes it as much as I like it. We will know later. I am nervous. When I tried on dresses for the first time I was like hmmm I really getting married. I don't think it has set in that we really are about to plan a wedding. Maybe because I was waiting on this day for so long and he finally agreed to have a wedding here and I am shocked. Like we have to pay a lot of money by the end of the year. Only 12 damn months. that is not enough time. But If we have planned ahead of time and do things differently. But whatever I need to be grateful that I am getting my wedding. yay! My New Years Wedding actually!
Well first we are going to Impression, which I liked the lady there ever one was sweet. Could have been because they weren't busy. And then Ventura's. I have never been to Venturas but they should be nice since they want people money.

SOOOOOO... I am picking back up where I left off and I FOUND THE DRESS!! YAY!! LOL. ON I/15/2017 I FOUND MY BEAUTIFUL DRESS! I AM SO EXCITED. I can not wait until the dress comes in for my fitting. Then I can see how it really be fitting tight and hugging my curves. LOL. I will keep you posted. Of course no pictures until the big day.

If anyone knows where to get diamond buttons that I can put on the back of my dress it would be a life saver.

Fear of Change

Have you ever been afraid of change?? Like having anxiety about changing the place of work or schools. Are you afraid of jumping out on faith??

Well I currently having that battle right now. I honestly don't know what to do. I have started doing things to be a teacher. I enrolled per say in Texas Teachers. I completed all the pre requisites online, training and stuff. I decided I wanted to teach Social Studies for high school. When it came to study for the test I figured that wouldn't be for me. So I decided on Early Childhood - sixth grade, generalist. Also I wanted to take Special Education exam. I PASSED both exams. YAY!

I have had 2 interviews at Elementary schools in HISD. One was for a 4th grade math teacher which I am nervous about because I am horrible in math and they have to take the STAAR test and what if they don't learn anything because I haven't taught them well. And the other position is for a 2nd teacher. Both schools are looking to hire like immediately. ugh!! But I have never taught in a classroom. I have never been alone with 22 kids at a time. I really want to practice. I have let both employers know that.

I have applied to substitute at several districts. Hoping to get on with Alief ISD, because they start at 52,800 and if I get  a SPED position I will get a stipend that will allow me to bring home even more. But both of the interviews I had were for HISD. NOOOO THAT IS NOT WHAT I WANT!!! I have the orientation for subbing on Feb 15. And I have to take a test to see if I qualify for subbing. I am nervous about that because it kind of holds my fate for that district. If I can sub with this district and apply to their jobs and they see that I am active employee with in the district I will be more prone to be hired. If I fail the test and try to apply to the district, I fear that they can see and I wont be hired by the district to be a actual teacher. I think I stress so much. When I just need to take my time and take it step by step. But I cant. That is the anxiety. (frowning face)

Now it is time for me to get a job. I currently work for the state Texas for Children Protective Services. I am trying to find other employment in the school system. But I am afraid of leaving some thing that I have been doing since I graduated college. I have been a CPS worker for 4 years. And now I am switching career fields. All these thoughts have went on in my head. What if I don't like the new job. What if I am not a good teacher. What if I don't like who work with. What if I don't make more money then what I am making now. All of this goes on in my head and it makes me think that I am second guessing my movements. And I am letting the devil let me have doubts about my future.

All I know is that you have to pray about how you feeling and know that if you trust the Lord and let him guide you he wont lead you wrong. Everything will work out. I think I need to trust in the Lord and realize that I can do all things through Christ who strengthen me.

At the end of the day we all have doubts and fears, but we never know if the outcome will be GREAT unless we follow through and put the doubts aside.

Hope this helps someone!
xoxoxoxoxo ebby daily!

Bella Bridesmaids! Wedding Colors!

So yesterday I found the bridesmaids dresses. I am so excited about it too. At first I wasn't sure of my colors. My fiancé wants to wear a grey suit. https://tuxedo.menswearhouse.com/create-your-look/id/5241
I like the grey suit and of course I want him to be happy on the big day but I wasn't to sure of the colors to go with his suit. So at first l loved plum, but my friend who's wedding I was just in did wine and I felt those colors were similar and then I was like OMG lets do emerald (Hunter green). But not with grey that would be ugly. Right? And then I was like New Years Eve party so my bridesmaids need to be stunning and party like. So I was thinking the sparkle dress that everyone is wearing now a day.

Every one would wear the dress except in a rose gold color. But the dress is 290. The dress is sold at Bella Bridesmaids. https://bellabridesmaids.com/
I wanted an affordable dress but that was still nice. My. bestfriend went with and she was so against the dress, but ended up loving it on. So I told her she can wear the dress we just needed to find another dress for the other girls.
So we continued the hunt. I came across this dress https://bellabridesmaids.com/shop/designer/designer-monique-lhuillier/product/450084/ it would be in green though. And I was like OMG. Everything is working out it is going to be beautiful and I have all my colors as well too. BUT the dress is 360. Who is paying that to be in a person wedding for one darn day. NOBODY. So we had to look again. I was being nosey while these other ladies were trying on dress and came across the green dress. It isn't as dark of a green that I would prefer, but it is green none the less. (So I cant find the picture) UGH.
But it is green and is off the shoulder. It isn't the chiffon material and it is nice and but not body con type either. It makes me happy that I have found something I am happy about. And hopefully the girls will comfortable as well.
I do plan on looking for a green dress that may-be cheaper then 240. I am going to two more dress shops this weekend to find my dress and I plan on browsing the bridesmaids section to see if anything else catches my eye. If so we may have another option. But one thing for sure WE HAVE OUR WEDDING COLORS!

Bridal EXTRAVAGANZA Houston, Texas January 7, 2017

Hey everybody! Especially my newly engaged couples. Not sure if you heard of bridal shows. But they are very good attend. This is my third and last bridal show to attend. Now it is time to start wedding planning for real. My first bridal show I attended was the David Tuteras bridal show of 2016. That show was cool. It gave me an idea on what to be looking for and what to expect. My best friend was interning at the show. Another reason on why i went. The link to the site is below. Check it out. Rumor has it, that he wont be coming back for 2017 show though.  https://moncheribridals.com/wedding-ideas/david-tuteras-bridal-show-unlike-any-other/
The second show I attended was the Houston Wedding show case show. http://houstonweddingshowcase.com/ This show I was expecting to be awesome. I had went back in 2014, with my friend who got married July 3, 2015 and it was a lot of vendors and people there. It was almost over whelming. So I was expecting the same think when I went in October 2016. But it wasn't. I went with my mom and my bestfriend. Kind of feel like I wasted their time and I don't like wasting people time. The only thing good that came from that show is that a won a dj package with 200 dollars worth of uplights, but I didn't have a venue at the time so they wanted to reach back out to me. Do you think that ever happened. HELL NAW.
And the third show was the Bridal Extravaganza. Now when this show came last year I wasn't thinking about it because I didn't have a ring on my finger. And when I came back from being engaged I had the ring, but missed the show because it only comes 2 times a year. Once in January ( the show I went to today) and July (the show I missed).
http://www.bridalextravaganzashow.com/
So the tickets on the day of the show are 20 bucks, the tickets before the show are 15 bucks and if you do the early ticket buying they are 7.50. I wish I had remembered about the show, but I forgot and bought 20 dollar tickets when I got in line. Just lazy I know. They have a lot of raffles which was awesome and a lot more vendors there as well. I think that because I already picked a venue it was a little waste of time, but I got an idea on table décor which was very helpful because my mind was shitless to that. And my fiancé ain't no damn help. And I found another shop I would like to try dresses on at and they have bridesmaids dresses as well. I went to Davids bridal the other day to look for bridesmaids dresses that are affordable, because times is hard. I didn't see anything I liked for real. It was depressing. So I needed other options and I see a lot of couture shops have bridesmaids dresses, but they are 260-300 dollars and that is very high plus getting them altered. I just don't want anybody paying that for my wedding. I originally only wanted to go to 3 stores for bridal gown's(not dress), but another store called La Reve located in Sugarland, Texas has couture dresses and I am all about Couture homie. Lol.  Once I pick my dress hopefully at the end of the month you guys will know all about that experience. Just no pictures of course until the big day lol.

Well hope this helps you guys with your wedding hunt!

xoxoxoxo ebby daily